The Convenience and Safety of the Decentralized Web

If you are one of 10 million people who’ve sequenced their genetic code using services like 23andMe and Ancestry.com, you may wonder what you should do with your DNA? You want it to be secure, but accessible to your offspring and medical professionals, even if you are no longer alive. You can keep it in an email, stored in the cloud, on your computer, or a USB drive. These old technologies are the easiest back-up, but their centralized nature makes them highly susceptible to unauthorized access, theft, equipment failure, or just plain getting lost in the shuffle of estate transfers. The modern answer is to store it on distributed storage, which by its decentralized nature is immutable, indestructible, and secure. We use InterPlanetary Filesystem and Ethereum Swarm because there are more than 25,000 nodes on these networks, each holding a cross-verified copy of your encrypted genetic data that can only be accessed by you and who you trust.